Mumbai: 53 percent of Indian enterprises were least mature in the adoption of mobility solutions whereas 17 percent of enterprises are adequately mature in their strive to adopt mobility solutions, a joint study by VMWare with Frost & Sullivan said on Monday.

More than four in 10 enterprises lack a mechanism to track which mobile devices have access to corporate data suggesting that IT leaders would implement device management and security and identity management like mobility solutions as part of their overall mobility strategy and security concerns, the study added.

“Most companies in India are now only starting to understand that deploying a mobile first strategy is critical to business continuity. Indian enterprises must look beyond basic enterprise app management by truly integrating identity, application and enterprise mobility management to stay relevant,” said Arun Parameswaran, Managing Director, VMware India.

The study also highlighted the scope for companies in India to implement wide scale mobility solutions, with only 17 percent of respondent enterprises currently being assessed as mature in their adoption of Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) technology.

Enterprise Mobility Maturity Index (EMMI), that reflects a company’s mobile adoption maturity level, can help IT executives baseline the current maturity of their mobility strategies and create the building blocks to advance mobility adoption within their organizations. "This proven methodology can be a strategic tool for enterprises to devise a mobility roadmap for the future,” said Benoy CS, Director, Digital Transformation Practice, Frost & Sullivan.

The survey findings also indicated that Android (87 percent) and AppleiOS (71 percent) are the most popular mobile platforms to support corporate applications across enterprises, followed by Windows and Windows 10 platforms. The study also observed that productivity apps like email/calendar, internal websites and sales force applications are currently the most frequently used apps on mobile devices.

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